Calzaghe thinks Froch should fight Golovkin or DeGale soon

calzaghe66By Scott Gilfoid: Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe thinks that the soon to be 38-year-old former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) needs to face top level opposition like Gennady Golovkin and/or James DeGale if he’s going to continue his career.

Calzaghe thinks that it’s going to be tough for Froch though because he’s burned up a year of his career sitting around doing absolutely nothing. If Froch does come back after a year, or possibly even more than that, it’s going to be tough on him due to the time he’s been sitting around.

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Calzaghe: DeGale would whoop Froch!

By Scott Gilfoid: Former 168lb champion Joe Calaghe sent in a tweet congratulating James DeGale (21-1, 14 KOs) for his win over Andre Dirrell (24-2, 16 KOs) tonight. Calaghe said that he thinks that DeGale would whip Carl Froch, and he asked for predictions. I don’t know who would win a fight between DeGale and Froch.

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Calzaghe: Pacquiao can give Mayweather problems by throwing combinations

calzaghe66By Chris Williams: It’s become abundantly clear that for Manny Pacquiao to have a chance of winning on Saturday night in his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pacquiao is going to need to put a great deal of pressure on Mayweather and look to overwhelm him with combinations in each and every round of the 12 round fight.

Former super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe realizes the predicament that Pacquiao is in and he feels that he’s going to need to stay on top of Mayweather for the full three minutes of every round for him to be able to get the victory.

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Dirrell-Jack: Calzaghe to work as an analyst on Spike TV on PBC this Friday, 4/24

dirrell4565By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) will have the pleasure to be working this Friday’s fight card on Spike TV on Premier Boxing Champions headlined by WBC super middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell (27-0-1, 22 KOs) defending his title against #8 WBC Badou Jack (18-1-1, 12 KOs) from the UIC Pavilion, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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For The Calzaghe Fans!

calzaghe3532325Jacob Cullen: I am only 25 years old, I started watching boxing rather late, around 17 years old to be exact. I obviously knew of superstars like Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis & Naseem Hamed but just never saw them fight.

Instead it was one Saturday night, ITV boxing, the main fight was Joe Calzaghe vs Evans Ashira. A 12 round contest for Joe’s WBO super middleweight title he had won years prior in a fight against Chris Eubank.

This was the FIRST ever boxing match I had seen LIVE and I was hooked, the atmosphere, the entrances everything that makes the sport so entertaining.

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Calzaghe: Cleverly beats Bellew

cleverly6777By Scott Gilfoid: Joe Calzaghe sees Tony Bellew (22-2-1, 14 KOs) tasting defeat for a second time when he faces former WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly (28-1, 14 KOs) on November 22nd at the Echo Arena, in Liverpool, UK.

Calzaghe thinks the Bellew-Cleverly 2 fight will ultimately come down to Cleverly’s superior hand speed and conditioning. Like their first fight in 2011, Calzaghe sees the two fighters fighting each other to a standstill in the first half of the fight. But once the bout goes into the second half, Calzaghe thinks Cleverly will take over and wear Bellew out with his superior conditioning.

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The biggest fights that never happened

By Gav Duthie: As the optimism increases yet again for a possible superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio there is no doubt the most talked about fight in history. If it doesn’t actually happen in May or September 2015 it will also be the biggest fight never to have happened in the sport. This article focuses on some of the other big fights that we have missed out on over the years and who might have won. leonard435243

Ray Leonard 36-3-1 (25) v Aaron Pryor 39-1 (35)

Aaron Pryor was recently awarded recognition as the greatest light welterweight of the 20th century. The problem is all the big fights at this time Tommy Hearns, Wilfried Benitez, Roberto Duran, Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler were at 147lbs and above. He had beaten Hearns as an amateur and was dominating as a Jnr welterweight. After turning down consecutive offers of $500,000 to face Duran and Leonard, Pryor eventually agreed to step up to challenge Ray Leonard for his Welterweight title for $750,000. This fight WAS going to happen. 

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Joe Calzaghe – The Truth Behind His Career

calzaghe53454By Anthony Mason: It was not shocking to see Joe Calzaghe inducted in the Hall of Fame. Not because of Joe Calzaghe’s career, but because of the low standards the Hall of Fame has set for induction. Calzaghe had a very unimpressive career, and the only big names on his resume came against men who were well past their prime.

Chris Eubank was in the very end of his career and a complete shell of his former self. After not losing in over 40 fights, he lost twice in the span of six fights prior to facing Calzaghe. Eubank had not defeated a top-level opponent since Nigel Benn seven years earlier and Michael Watson one year after that. Calzaghe obtained the vacant paper WBO belt and proceeded to make 21 incredibly weak defenses.

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